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The university of Trondheim in Norway may become the first university in the West to adopt an academic boycott of Israel, if a majority of its board votes in favor of the move at a meeting on the subject next month.

The Oslo based Rintala Eggertsson Architects reaslised this modest 19sqm house in their home city.

NORGES BANK will probably raise its benchmark interest rate today, becoming the first European central bank to reverse monetary support measures as policy-makers steer the oil-rich economy through recovery.

Norges Bank raised its key interest rate a quarter point from a record low and signaled steeper increases than it previously forecast over the next three years as inflation accelerates and unemployment remains low.

Ferocious prehistoric predator's skull is 2.4 metres and could belong to creature measuring up to 16 metres in length An artist's impression of a 45-ton pliosaur attacking.

CUSTOMS officials in Norway say they had arrested a man who tried to illegally import 14 snakes and 10 lizards into the country by taping the reptiles to his body.

A fledging museum devoted to the pursuit of peace is hoping its mission is just what President Barack Obama is looking for when he decides what to do with the $1.4 million cash award that comes with his Nobel Peace Prize.

A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them under his clothes.

"Drum-cam" footage of Jason Bonham performing with Slash during the former GUNS N' ROSES /current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist's headlining appearance at this year's edition of the Quart festival on June 30, 2009 in Kristiansand, Norway can be viewed below.

It's the moment nosy neighbors have been waiting for a ' the release of official records showing the annual income and overall wealth of nearly every Norwegian taxpayer.

Rachael Agnello, 15, of Cranberry in the kitchen of her Jessheim, Norway, host mom, Henriette Oord.

Startup Energy Micro AS has launched its first products, the EFM32 family of microcontrollers, otherwise known as Gecko, with the claim the microcontrollers offer more than four times the battery life of existing 8, 16 or 32-bit microcontrollers.

Sipping my last few drops of tea, I watched the landscape change outside the airplane's window from white, puffy clouds to an emerald patchwork of meadows and mountains.

This undated file photo provided by Atlantic Productions/History shows a 47 million year old fossilized remains of a primate called "Ida" at the University of Oslo Natural Museum History in Norway.

A study published today , in JAMA by Nancy M. Albert and colleagues, exploring aldosterone antagonist usage among US patients hospitalised with heart failure, found that only one-third of patients meeting current US Clinical Practice Guidelines criteria were actually being treated .

As Lisbon reopens the old splits, there is an alternative to full membership. But would it work for Britain? Roy Hattersley Jens Stoltenberg, the recently re-elected Prime Minister of Norway, could not have been more frank.

Barack Obama was president a mere 12 days before the Nobel Peace Prize nominations closed and he still won.

Ottar Weel, president of the Rotary Club of Gamlebyen-Fredrikstad, and his son enjoy a laugh reading Humorleksikonet Skrattkammeret, a book full of short stories.

The first time I went to prison, it was to an idyllic place with lush woodland, bright-colored houses and the waters of the Oslo fjord sparkling in the summer sun.

The Israeli electro-rock-pop band Terry Poison doesn't seem to have anything to do with Zionism.

The journey brought the coastal express and its hardy passengers to Honnignsvag, a centre of some significance since this is the land access to the elusive North Cape.The stop is 3.5 hours which allows time for a jaunt up beyond 71 degrees latitude.

Evidently some people were disappointed that Dick Cheney didn't receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and believe me, I sympathize - I thought Philip Roth should've gotten the literature prize instead of that grumpy Romanian lady with the severe hair - but it was Mr.

The computer on board the MS Nordkapp will not acknowledge Bodo, Norway one of the seven ports of call today.

Northern lights. All photos courtesy Hurtigruten. Compiled by J.S. Fletcher and Kathy M. Newbern.

Steamed out of Bergen on the MS Nordkapp two days ago. Leaving Norway's second largest city by sea is only fittting since it harkens the imagination back 1,000 years when the Viking hordes set off to create chaos from disorder.

Outraged babble and sanctimonious tut-tutting over President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize will pour forth until the very evening he accepts the prize in Oslo, and then for years afterward.

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25-28. Secretary General of the ministry Murten Ruud, Director General Careen Bugge and senior expert Heyde Botolf will be in delegation, Norway's embassy in Azerbaijan said.

It's been more than 30 years since John Cleese made his television classic "Fawlty Towers" and the British comedian is just as proud of it now as when he helped create the series in the 1970s.

Codfish hits Stavanger while the Duckfish goes in Vigo Surfersvillage Global Surf News , 14 October, 2009 : - - Its time for 2 new stops for the European VQS tour! This upcoming weekend we will hit Norway and Spain! 17 - 18th of October - VQS Codfish- Stavanger, Norway- Registrations on the beach of Bore at 9.00 17 - 18th of October - VQS Duckfish ...

Two Norwegians sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month have begun an appeal against the sentence, judicial sources said on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka has lodged a strong protest with the Norwegian government over a reported meeting held by LTTE's advisory committee in Oslo, where it said an action plan was formulated to announce a transnational government of Tamil Ealam.

Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt believes there is still great value in the city council's oil and gas fact-finding trip to Norway next month.

Evidently some people were disappointed that Dick Cheney didn't receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and believe me, I sympathize -- I thought Philip Roth should've gotten the literature prize instead of that grumpy Romanian lady with the severe hair -- but it was Mr.

In this Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 file photo, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, holds a picture of President Barack Obama, in Oslo, Norway, after the announcement of Obama as winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

Norway plans to raise investments in capturing and storing greenhouse gases in 2010 to a record of almost 3.5 billion crowns to help fight climate change, Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen said on Tuesday.

This was Barack Obama's chance. Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage that's weighed his presidency down the implausible expectations, the utopian dreams, the messianic hoo-ha. Here was a place to draw a clean line between himself and all the overzealous Obamaphiles, at home and abroad, who poured their ...

As more extremely pre-term infants survive in Sweden, an increasing number of babies are experiencing vision problems caused by abnormalities involving the retina, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Most travelers who book winter cruises are trying to escape the cold weather by heading to Mexico or the Caribbean.

Yet another case of Dementia-Obama, and further proof that Obama should have run for president of Europe last year.

Obama has betrayed mission to forge Mideast peace Oslo decided to change its ways and begin giving out deferred Nobel Prizes: Win now, pay tomorrow.

Got curious about how the media in Norway is playing the Nobel Peace Prize decision , so I check out the Aftenposten this morning.

From a boardroom in Oslo, five Norwegians handpicked by their nation's parliament are kingmakers of the highest sort, each year honoring at least one individual or group for landmark achievements worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Friday, 9 October 2009, 9:51 am Press Release: Greenpeace New Zealand Auckland October 8 2009 – Norway's newly re-elected Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has just announced a 40% emission reductions target at the UN climate talks in Bangkok, upping the pressure on developed countries like New Zealand to do the same.

President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Less than nine months into his presidency, Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

Proposals to explore oil fields in the Great South Basin beyond Stewart Island have been put on hold.

Israel should consider ousting Norwegian monitors from Hebron due to Oslo's "hostility" toward Israel, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the cabinet Thursday.

The Kon-Tiki Museum houses original boats and exhibits from Thor Heyerdahla s world famous expeditions.

Prime Minister John Key has confirmed New Zealand Special Air Service troops are in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The organizers of Norway's biggest summer music festival have declared bankruptcy for the second time in two years.

In a move which Foreign Ministry sources defined as "unusual," Israel's embassy in Norway has officially protested the launch of a high profile academic seminar there delivered exclusively by lecturers known for their highly critical views of Israel.

Caption: John Cleese attends a press conference to announce the release of two special episodes of 'Fawlty Towers' to commemorate the 30th anniversay of the show, held at the Navy and Militay Club St James' Square London, England .... JOHN CLEESE launched his one-man comedy show in Oslo, Norway with a series of nasty digs aimed at his ex-wife ALYCE ...

The location and activities of New Zealand's secretive Special Air Service troops in Afghanistan have been revealed by Norway's defence chief.

Norway on Friday awarded its highest military decoration for the first time in 60 years, posthumously honoring a soldier who was killed while helping the wartime government flee the country as German troops invaded in 1940.

Caption: Audience at the third Anniversary of their smash Broadway musical ' Monty Python 's Spamalot' at the Shubert Theatre.

Cisco today announced a definitive agreement for Cisco to launch a recommended voluntary cash offer to acquire TANDBERG, a video conferencing gear maker.